The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.
But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.
It loves more readily than it hates.
If truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom.
Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.
There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.